School of Business, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland.
School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessalonki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 26;18(15):7914. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18157914.
Attachment is a system of threat regulation, and insecure (anxious and avoidant) attachment orientations are important individual difference antecedents to the cognitive and affective attributions of trait inferences. However, little is known about how threat-related contexts, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, influence attachment-related socio-cognitive schemas. Using an experimental research design across two independent samples of 330 (pre-onset of COVID-19) and 233 (post-onset of COVID-19) participants, we tested whether attachment orientations influenced general practitioner (GP) ratings and selection differently pre- and post-onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that during the COVID-19 pandemic, when presented with only negative information signals, avoidant individuals attributed positive ratings to GPs, with differing ratings as the number of positive signals increased. Differences between pre- and post-onset of the COVID-19 pandemic were less pronounced with regards to positive signals. We discuss these results in line with signal detection theory (SDT) and provide practical implications in response to our findings.
依恋是一种威胁调节系统，不安全（焦虑和回避）的依恋取向是认知和情感归因特质推理的重要个体差异前因。然而，对于像当前的 COVID-19 大流行这样的与威胁相关的背景如何影响与依恋相关的社会认知图式，我们知之甚少。我们使用两个独立样本的实验研究设计，共有 330 名（COVID-19 发病前）和 233 名（COVID-19 发病后）参与者，测试了依恋取向是否会在 COVID-19 大流行前后对全科医生（GP）的评估和选择产生不同的影响。我们发现，在 COVID-19 大流行期间，当仅呈现负面信息信号时，回避型个体对全科医生给予了积极的评价，随着积极信号数量的增加，评价也有所不同。关于积极信号，COVID-19 大流行前后的差异不太明显。我们根据信号检测理论（SDT）讨论了这些结果，并根据我们的发现提供了实际影响。
